ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,258, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Helix Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).
"Dynamic storage of sequencing data files" was invented by Tom Thomas (San Francisco) and Feng Liu (Burnaby, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and method of managing genomic sequencing data. In an embodiment, a data management controller is communicatively coupled to an external data repository over a communication network. The data management controller is configured to detect a first event triggering initial analysis on raw sequence data encoded in a standard file format and stored in the external data repository. The data management controller is...